Clinical Psychologist, University of KwaZulu-Natal Suntosh is a clinical psychologist in the public sector in Durban and is affiliated to the Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine, at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He is also a researcher and workshop facilitator with the African LGBTI+ Human Rights Project, responsible publishing the Practice Guidelines for Psychology Professionals Working with Sexually and Gender Diverse People. Suntosh is on the editorial boards of both the South African Journal of Psychology (SAJP) and Psychology in Society (PINS). His scholar-activism focuses on critical and decolonial approaches to mental health, race, sexuality, and gender. In 2015, he was named by the Mail and Guardian as one of the top 200 young people in healthcare in South Africa.
Professor of Work and Organisation, Brunel University London Shireen joined Brunel University London in September 2019. She was previously Reader in Work and Organisation at the University of Birmingham, Senior Lecturer at the School of Management at the University of Leicester and the University of Basel in Switzerland. She had worked for seven years as a Lecturer and Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge. She obtained a BSc in Economics from the London School of Economics, an MSc in Development Economics from the University of Oxford and a PhD in Social Policy from the London School of Economics. Prior to working in academia, Shireen had a career in international finance.
Emeritus Professor in English, La Trobe University Susan K Martin is an expert in nineteenth-century Australian literature and reading cultures. She has taught and also written extensively on contemporary Australian literature. Her current work includes analysis of the practice and meaning of cultural activities in the Victorian and modern eras, particularly reading but also gardening and craft, as well as work on the teaching and uses of Australian literature in Schools. She has written 3 co-authored scholarly books, Colonial Dickens, Sensational Melbourne, and Reading the Garden, a number of edited works including the Australian volume of the Routledge Women and Empire series, and over 50 scholarly articles in national and international journals.
Senior Lecturer in International Security, Brunel University London I am an historian of intelligence, security, empire and the modern Middle East. Before coming to Brunel, I was a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow in the Department of History and Classical Studies at McGill University, Montreal. I received my DPhil from the University of Oxford, and my BA and MA from the University of Calgary. Since 2007, I have been looking at records declassified records in the UK, USA, and Israel which shed new light on the story of the Palestine Mandate, but also on the previously unknown role of intelligence in countering terrorism & insurgency, and in shaping British policy.
Assistant Professor of Ecology, Behavior and Evolution, University of California, San Diego I was a Smithson Fellow at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (as it used to be called), a Junior Life Sciences Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin and an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at Colorado State University in the Department of Fish Wildlife and Conservation Biology. Prior to my new and current role as an assistant professor, I founded and still serve in leadership of Trunks & Leaves, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to conservation of Asian elephants and their habitats.
PhD Candidate, Department of Global Health & Social Medicine, King's College London I am currently writing a book based on my doctoral research findings that gender and race myths appear to trump the available empidemiological data when it comes to clinical and lay descriptions of menstrual health-related symptoms. I have a Master's degree in research methods (Qual & Quant), ten years experience as an evaluator of human rights policies and interventions (with a focus on gender equality), and ten years specialising in menstrual health research. I also founded the world's first evidence-based info hub on menstrual health and associated rights issues in 2016 (www.menstrual-matters.com).
